Dragon Age Origins: Extremely High GPU usage
I recently started a new playthrough of Dragon Age: Origins. During the first hour of gameplay, I noticed that the GPU on my PC was consistently being maxed out (or getting close to 100% usage.) Add...
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Thank you for your reply, i'll go through and try these out!
This was a huge surprise to me, my computer has never done this before. I forgot to put it in the main post, but the only reason I knew it was happening was there was this extremely high pitched, wavering buzzing noise coming from my computer when the game was running that was quite concerning. (Sounded kind of like a mosquito buzzing right next to my ear)
What you hear is most probably coil whine.
Coil whine is a problem with many modern GPUs and is caused by electronic components that vibrate at certain frequencies when current flows through them.
It is not dangerous for your GPU or other components but can be quit annoying.
Often the coil whine is amplified by a GPU that achieves very high FPS numbers, such as a modern GPU in a 14-year-old game.
The best course of action is still to use VSync or a frame limiter to bring the frame rate down.
